University thread?

terley said:
Top tip - Don't be one of those 30-40% of students who turns up to at best 50-60% of lectures. Most lecture slides and recordings are available on university VLE's and sites such as Panopto.. But nothing beats actually being there, even if its boring and you want to fall asleep.

You are paying £9,000 a year for them to teach you, use it..
A lecture you learn by being told
A Seminar you learn by doing

Both are required to learn a subject correctly.. Also READ, don't procrastinate..
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VLEs are great for filling out your own notes. My advice in lectures these days, which are rather archaic, would be to concentrate on listening and interacting during Q/A bits some lecturers do. Catching staff shortly before or after a lecture, with good attendance and face recognition on your side, is also a sneaky way to get more time out of them and book those office hours for your benefit. Sneaky-breaky like. ;)

tres said:
Congratulations!

Final year medicine here. Enjoying this year.
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Jeremy Hunt awaits your soul eagerly! :D
 
helpimcrap said:
Cheers. You are talking to someone who was the only one to have a 100% record until his broke down for one day when I was at college last year. :)
The thing which let me down last year was being the only man in the group. Young girls being girls huddle together and are unreliable so I was forced to be partnered with people and divide tasks but they'd never turn up. I ended up doing 1 task completely on my own as I knew full well they would be useless. I got distinction for that. But that was after being let down 3 times so I'd learned too late.

I used to never turn up to college - sub 50%. Model student now.

ps it's £9250. As I pointed out to the lecturer at Wolverhampton lol. He was cool about me being pedantic. :)
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Unfortunately the mandatory group work continues in University.

Imagine giving students a 5,000 word report to write and having a year of over 150 students.. three quarters of a million words to check between 5-6 tutors, they group people up regardless.

My advise in those scenario's is add a table of contributions at the end of your work, if they did nothing.. It will show it. Same with presentations.. Leave their slides blank if you are creating a presentation with a deadline submission.
 
Cheers. On the plus side today I got told I would get a 75% discount on my Sky package. :D And I got told yesterday I'd have a temporary job working at a police HQ. :D

So far this is shaping up to be a pretty awesome week.
 
Congrats - it's definitely nice to have an unconditional offer as a back-up, but don't let it tempt you into slacking off now you know you'll get in somewhere anyway.

My son has received an unconditional offer for Maths at Leicester, but he definitely won't be slacking off as he really want to do it at Warwick and their offer is A*A*A* or A*A*AA :eek:
 
helpimcrap said:
Cheers. You are talking to someone who was the only one to have a 100% record until his broke down for one day when I was at college last year. :)
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I've got 100% attendance at uni and my marks averaged 97% in my first year and 93% in my second. Anyone who tells you that it doesn't matter if you miss some lectures is a fool ;-)
 
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